{"id":9442,"date":"2016-01-21T09:30:35","date_gmt":"2016-01-21T14:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/?p=9442"},"modified":"2016-01-21T00:37:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-21T05:37:20","slug":"the-whitney-plantation-a-special-place-carefully-designed-to-teach-about-slavery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thewei.com\/kimi\/the-whitney-plantation-a-special-place-carefully-designed-to-teach-about-slavery\/","title":{"rendered":"The Whitney Plantation, a special place carefully designed to teach about slavery"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"John<\/a>
Source: The Atlantic video about the Whitney Foundation<\/figcaption><\/figure>John Cummings founded the Whitney Plantation to educate the country about our national legacy of slavery and has spent $8 million over 15 years on this project. He says, “This isn’t black history, this is American history .. it was very shocking to me that I didn’t know about slavery … I had no idea of how deprived they were, not by force of circumstance, but by deliberate planning … We’re not finished.”<\/p>\n
\"Ibrahima<\/a>
Source: The Atlantic’s video about the Whitney Foundation<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The museum and memorial’s Director of Research, Ibrahima Seck, says today, “People need to understand what happened on these plantations … why so many people are in jail, so much poverty, black people being shot and killed like game. All that is rooted in slavery.”<\/p>\n

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